WFS GetCapabilities 1.0.0 not valid

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi Tom,

I would be in favour of obeying the WFS 1.0.0 schema.

So leave the elements out, but support them " in the background".

Best regards,
Bart

Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] schreef:
>> using version 4.10 beta2, the WFS GetCapabilities (1.0.0 
>> version) response is not valid.
>>
>> Problems:
>>
>> 1) <SFE_XMLSCHEMA/> is not known in the 1.0.0 schema so 
>> should be omitted
>>       <SchemaDescriptionLanguage>
>>         <XMLSCHEMA/>
>>         <SFE_XMLSCHEMA/>
>>       </SchemaDescriptionLanguage>
>>
>> 2) GML3 in not allowed as result format
>>
>>       <ResultFormat>
>>         <GML2/>
>>         <GML3/>
>>       </ResultFormat>
>>     
>
> Because we added GML3L0 as a format, we added these formats for
> Capabilities to differentiate btw GML2 and GML3.  However, OGC:WFS 1.0.0
> is hardcoded.  The WFS 1.0.0 specs only define XMLSCHEMA as a
> description language for DescribeFeatureType, as well as only GML2 for
> GetFeature.
>
> So we're in a bit of a quandry, because we support WFS 1.0.0, GML2 AND
> GML3L0.  But GML3L0 is only legal in WFS 1.0.0 (which uses OWS Common
> 1.0.0, which abstracts constructs like outputformats [soft typing] as
> opposed to defining hardcoded element names for same).
>
> If we want to be compliant to OGC:WFS 1.0.0, which must remove the GML3
> refs in Capabilities.  They can still be around in the interface, just
> not advertise as such in Capabilities XML so as not to break the schema.
>
> Comments?
>
> ..Tom
>
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